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08-05-2012

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crontab+mplayer alarm clock

I'm trying to run a alarm.sh using crontab, which play a song as
an alarm at 6.15 am. I'm using amixer so that volume increases by 10% in every loop.

My script is the following.

Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PLAYER=/usr/bin/mplayer
SONG=/home/hbar/Music/song.mp3
DISPLAY=:0.0

15 06 * * * /usr/bin/amixer sset Master 10%+ > /dev/null && $PLAYER -loop 5 $SONG > /dev/null 2>&1

However, nothing is happening! If I don't use amixer, song is played in the desired time.

(For testing I was changing the time to a time after 1 minute of the current time, so it's not that I need to wait till 6.15 am.)

Thanks.

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-06-2012 at 03:47 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples

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NAME

       rpld-deprecated - Deprecated RoarAudio PlayList Daemon control programs

SYNOPSIS

       rpld-play

       rpld-stop

       rpld-next [--ifcurple PLE]

       rpld-prev

       rpld-addplaylist PLI

       rpld-delplaylist PLI

       rpld-store

DESCRIPTION

       The  RoarAudio  PlayList  Daemon is a daemon which manages playlists and can play files or streams from those lists using a RoarAudio Sound
       Server.

       This is a set of deprecated tools to do simple control of the server.  All those tools has be replaced by rpld-ctl(1).

       The following tools are deprecated:

       rpld-play
	      Start playback if not yet started.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl play

       rpld-stop
	      Stop playback.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl stop

       rpld-next [--ifcurple PLE]
	      Skip current song.

	      if --ifcurple and a PLE is given the song is only skiped if the currently played song matches the given PLE.

	      This tool has only been deprecated in case --ifcurple is not used.  Replaced by: rpld-ctl next

       rpld-prev
	      Go back to previous song.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl prev

       rpld-addplaylist PLI
	      Add playlist with name PLI.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl addplaylist PLI

       rpld-delplaylist PLI
	      Delete playlist PLI.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl delplaylist PLI

       rpld-store
	      Store current state to disk.

	      This tool should not be needed to be called by a user at all for normal use cases.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl store

SEE ALSO

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